A national award for private landowners who show exceptional care for the soil, water and wildlife on the land they farm. Given in California by the Sand County Foundation.
Everything here comes from our healthy soil.
All Natural Almonds
Our everyday almond. Regenerative organic, steam pasteurized to meet USDA requirements, and traceable to the block it grew in.
Truly Raw Almonds
Never heated and never gassed. Shelled, sorted, bagged. That is the entire process. Only available direct from the farm.
Truly Raw Walnuts
Added to the farm in 2020. Regenerative organic, never treated, and grown in the same soil as the almonds.
Olive Oil, Family Blend
Pressed from our own organic grove, planted in 2008 and harvested here every year since 2012. Rounder and buttery. The everyday bottle.
We're setting a new standard in farming
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Most brands
Conventional
Synthetic pesticides. Steam treated, or treated with PPO gas.
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Grocery organic
Certified Organic
No synthetic inputs, but steam pasteurized, and usually pooled from many farms.
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Regenerative Organic Certified®
Healthy, tested soil. No chemical sprays. Harvesting methods that improve the land and air quality.
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Burroughs Family FarmsShop Truly Raw
Truly RawFarm exclusive
Raw almonds straight from the orchard. Unpasteurized. Just shelled and bagged, ready for you.
The valley we live in is running out of water.
We sit here in the rolling hills of the northern San Joaquin Valley, about 90 miles from Yosemite, under the majestic gaze of Half Dome.
That is the math we farm with, and the answer is not complicated: soil that holds water needs less of it. Every 1% of organic matter you build into an acre lets it hold roughly 30,000 more gallons.
So we spend our days building organic matter.
Sources: Public Policy Institute of California · USDA NRCS
One farm. One loop.
A floor that is never bare
Cover crops go in every fall, and we never till. Tilling breaks the soil apart and leaves bare dirt, which is exactly what lifts into the air at harvest.
Grazed: not sprayed
Sheep eat the cover down for about six months a year. Nothing has to be killed off to clear the orchard floor.
Soil that holds water
Roots, manure, and no tilling build organic matter. Every 1% of it holds roughly 30,000 more gallons an acre.
Caught: not swept
We harvest the crop off the tree instead of sweeping it up off the ground. Far less dust ever leaves this farm.
A complete ecosystem instead of chemical sprays
Owl boxes, raptor perches and hedgerows do work that a sprayer otherwise would. We still spray when we must, and only what organic certification allows.
Three enterprises, one farm
Meat: at the farm
The sheep that graze our orchard floors. Sold locally at our farm and nowhere else. The land nurtures the animals, the animals nurture the land, and then our community.
Eggs: at your grocer
Ten coops on wheels, built from recycled cotton trailers, following the flock across open land. Those birds are part of the soil cycle, and the eggs go to nearby groceries.
Almonds, walnuts and olive oil:
These are the ones that travel. They ship anywhere in the country, and they are what make everything else here possible.
The animals that build our soil become food you can only get near us. Almonds, walnuts and olive oil are the crops that travel, and they are what let us keep the animals here. You grow the movement every time you buy from our farm.
Trailblazing to make room for others
We are the first Regenerative Organic Certified® almond farm in the world, and this movement takes more than one farm.
We hope to see growers everywhere adopt regenerative practices, rebuild their soil and add their acres to the total. So we host field days, publish what we do, and take a call from anyone who is curious.
Start with one block. Start with a cover crop. Do what you can.
What people say once they have tasted the difference
Love the product. The almonds arrived quickly and were super fresh. I use them to make homemade almond milk and couldn't be more pleased with their quality.
Finally, walnuts that taste delicious, fresh, and without that “off taste” that occurs with grocery stores.
The Burroughs Family are truly keepers of the earth. Their Family Blend Extra Virgin Olive Oil has a light, clean taste and I use it exclusively in my cooking.
Eat almonds from a farm you can trust
Five generations, our own orchards in the northern San Joaquin Valley, and the first Regenerative Organic Certified® almond farm in the world.
